Be real Quote by Nathan Englander

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your…

— Edward James Olmos

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost…

— Stephen King

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others…

— Pierre Bayard

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them…

— Nick Earls

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply…

— Lloyd Jones